Monthly Archives: December 2007

Snack Foods that Lose Weight For You

Posted on 12/8/2007 by grubgirl

An article from Bootstrapper talks about foods that burn more calories than they contain. Of course, this caught my eye as we head into the holiday grub season.

The article lists a lot of healthy vegetables and fruits that apparently take more work to digest than to eat. A few caught my eye as being workplace- or cubicle-friendly. That is, I can eat it one-handed while mousing or typing with the other. Anything too juicy that requires slurping or constant napkin holding isn’t ideal for me.

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Cooking Chinese Food: Ingredients for Recipes

Posted on 12/3/2007 by grubgirl

What I hear most frequently from readers is that you guys want more San Francisco Bay Area restaurant recommendations and some easy recipes. (Though my friends are wonderful cooks, and I have seen many a varied set of methods they use to cut things, I won’t post a video about how to use a cooking knife as it may fall on deaf ears.) So then I resort to cooking in general. And why not Chinese cooking since many of the tasty dishes you can get in the restaurant can (supposedly) be reproduced in your kitchen, whether you’ve got a gas stove or All Electric Kitchen.

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